What you will learn

You will learn the basics of Excel including how to create formulas, charts and print your work

  • How to create a workbook

  • How to create formulas

  • How to create charts

  • How to print your workseets

  • And more ...

Course Content

  • 1

    An Introduction to Excel

    • The Ribbon

    • File Tab

    • Hiding and unhiding the ribbon

    • Access keys

    • Screen tips

    • The active cell

    • How big is Excel

    • The cursor

    • About cell ranges

    • Live preview

    • The status bar

    • Status bar calculations

    • About text and numbers

    • Keyboard shortcuts

    • Using undo and redo

    • Creating shortcuts

    • How to open a blank Excel workbook

    • How to open a blank Excel workbook from and existing workbook

    • Excel templates

  • 2

    Using Excel - Making changes

    • Deleting cell content

    • Change text in a cell

    • Change numbers in a cell

    • Enter data in to multiple cells

    • Deleting data from multiple cells

  • 3

    Using Excel - Saving Excel workbooks

    • Saving a new workbook to you PC

    • Saving changes to your workbook

    • Saving a new workbook to One Drive

    • Saving a new workbook to SharePoint

    • Using Autosave

    • Recover unsaved workbooks

  • 4

    Using Excel - The Cursor

    • Using the cursor to highlight cells

    • Using the cursor to copy

    • Using the cursor to move content

  • 5

    Using Excel - Working with recent workbooks

    • Open a recently used workbook

    • Create shortcuts to often used workbooks

    • Renaming a workbook

  • 6

    Using Excel - Sharing workbooks

    • Share by using a link

    • Share again

    • Send a link to specific people

    • Send as an attachment

  • 7

    Using Excel - The quick access toolbar (QAT)

    • About the QAT

    • Moving the QAT

  • 8

    Formatting fonts

    • Making font bold

    • Making font italics

    • Underlining font

    • changing font colour

    • Changing font size

    • Grow and shrink fonts

    • Change font style

    • Strikethrough content

    • Using super and subscript

  • 9

    Formatting cells

    • Change cell fill colour

    • Remove cell fill colour

  • 10

    Formatting dates

    • Adding dates to Excel

    • Using the long date format

    • Show day and date in a cell

  • 11

    Formatting numbers

    • Accounting format in Sterling

    • Currency format - in Sterling

    • Format as Dollars

    • Format as Euros

    • Format as a percentage

    • Using comma seperators

    • Increase and decrease spaces after decimal

  • 12

    Aligning cell content

    • Align top, middle or bottom

    • Rotate text up

    • Angle content counterclockwise

    • Angle content clockwise

    • Rotate text vertical

    • Custom rotation

  • 13

    Using cell indentation

    • Increase and decrease indentation

  • 14

    Merge and centre

    • Merge and centre cells

    • Unmerge cells

    • Merge across cells

    • Changing merge settings

    • Using wrap text

    • Using merge and centre and wrap text together

    • Changing cells that are merged, centred and wrapped

  • 15

    An Introduction to Formulas

    • What are formulas

    • Formula operators

    • BODMAS

    • Cell referencing

    • When you have created a formula...

    • Creating formulas that add

    • Creating formulas that subtract

    • Creating formulas that divide

    • Creating formulas that multiply

    • Using SUM to add many numbers

    • Using SUM to add random cells

    • Using AVERAGE

    • Finding the AVERAGE of random cells

    • Using COUNT

    • Changing formulas

    • Using COUNT on random cells

    • Using MAX

    • Using MAX on random cells

    • Using MIN

    • Using MIN on random cells

  • 16

    Borders

    • Adding borders to a spreadsheet

    • Adding bottom borders

    • Adding top borders

    • Adding a border to the right

    • Adding a border to the left

    • Removing all borders

    • Adding a thick border

    • Adding an outside border

    • Adding a double bottom border

    • Adding a thick bottom border

    • Adding top and bottom borders

    • Adding a thick top and bottom borders

    • Drawing borders

    • Drawing a grid

    • Removing borders with the eraser

    • Drawing coloured borders

    • Drawing custom lines

    • Removing borders

    • Using custom borders

  • 17

    Working with rows and columns

    • Columns - Inserting sheet columns

    • Columns - Deleting sheet columns

    • Columns - What are #######

    • Columns - Inserting a column in selected part of spreadsheet

    • Columns - Deleting a column in selected part of spreadsheet

    • Columns - Deleting multiple columns from one table

    • Columns - Automatically change column width

    • Columns - How to hide columns

    • Columns - How to unhide columns

    • Columns - How to set multiple columns to the exact same width

    • Inserting sheet rows

    • Deleting sheet rows

    • Rows - Inserting a row in selected part of spreadsheet

    • Rows - Deleting a row in selected part of spreadsheet

    • Rows - How to set multiple rows to the exact same height

    • Row - Automatically change row height

    • How to hide rows

    • How to unhide rows

  • 18

    Selection techniques

    • Selecting cells using a mouse

    • Selecting an enttire table

    • Selecting random cells

    • Highlight ranges not next to each other

    • Selecting hseet columns

    • Selecting sheet rows

  • 19

    Using copy and paste

    • What is cut, copy and paste

    • How to copy and paste

    • How to cut and paste

    • Using the clipboard

    • Using the format painter to copy formatting

  • 20

    Working with worksheets

    • Renaming worksheets

    • Copy a worksheet

    • Copy a worksheet to a new workbook

    • Copy a worksheet to a different workbook

    • Move a worksheet to a new workbook

    • Deleting a worksheet

    • Hiding worksheets

    • Unhiding worksheets

    • Change tab colours

  • 21

    Creating Charts

    • Preparing your data for charts

    • Creating a clustered column chart

    • Creating a bar chart

    • Creating a bar chart

    • The link between your data and your chart

    • Moving a chart

    • About the chart ribbon tabs

    • The Chart design tab on the ribbom

    • Switching chart axes over

    • Filtering a chart

    • Creating a 3D pie chart

    • Adding data to a pie chart

    • Moving a chart to a new worksheet

    • Moving a chart to an existing worksheet

  • 22

    Printing

    • Printing a small table

    • Fit print to one page

    • Fit printed columns on to one page

    • Change print to landscape

    • Print a chart and table together

    • Print just a chart

    • Print part of a spreadhseet

    • Print tables on two or more pages

    • Print table headings